, 1887-08-26
TOWN TALK.
Cosby Little paragraphs Picked Up
Throughout the City.

Throughout the City.
The entry books of the Wyoming Fair
association will be opened Sept. l.
The Miunehaha addition lot sale excur.
sion will arrive from the east to-day.
An Eddy street saloon is making ar
rangements to open a three in a row keno
game.
The IO-cent circus drew a large crowd
at the old show grounds yesterday after
noon. A fair show is given.
A Polack & Co. are the first to come
forward with an announcement of fall i'm
portations of clothing. Their stock is
large and complete.
The Office of the Cheyenne City Gas
company will hereafter be in the Warren
Mercantile building. The entrance will
be from Sixteenth street.
John Yahn, the soldier ball player, was
honorably discharged the service last week
and departed for his Newark, N. j.,
home yesterday morning.
The Presbyterian Sunday school picnic
which was to be held at the Fair grounds
to-day has been postponed until the
weather becomes more settled.
The fine new bar and billiard rooms of
the Inter Ocean were formally opened
last night. There was a large attendance
and the affair was voted a grand success.
Robert Day was liberated from the
county Jail Wednesday evening and de-
parted for Nebraska on a freight train.
He will return to Cheyenne in about two
weeks.
The weather was clear yesterday and
it was a trihe warmer. The minimum
temperature was GO, the lowest 80. The
cold wave has evidently passed over this
section.
George A. Guertin has accepted the
agency for Wyoming of the Crandall
type writer, the latest invention in this
line, and one containing remarkable i'm
provements.
There will be a meeting of the county
commissioners Monday for the purpose of
making the tax levy. There was no SEES
sion yesterday on account of the absence
of Commissioner John Hunton.
Members of the school board will act as
pail bearers at the funeral of Mrs. Sarah
f. Pierce. Services in connection with
the burial will occur at the Episcopal
church at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
Posters are already about town an
~nOuncing reduced rates to the G. A. r.
National encampment at st. Louis from
Sept. 26 to Oct. l.. A delegation from
John f. Reynolds post will attend.
Each of the FIVE candidates for the
Office OF city engineer confidently expect
to succeed Mr.. provinces. The only draw
back to the happiness of some people is
the stern fact that there are not enough
offices to go round.
The McKanlass colored specially com
pany closed their engagement at the
Cheyenne opera house last evening.
There was a small audience present. The
combination leave to-day on a freight and
will play at Laramie tonight.
A syndicate of Chicago capitalists have
purchased an interest in the marble de-
posts seventeen miles beyond the con-
templated terminus of the Cheyenne &
Northern. The property was formerly
owned by j. B. Adams, of Douglas.
Following the methods adopted and APP
proved by the great metropolitan papers
of Omaha and Denver, The LEADER
stops the press to announce that a Chey-
enne man won $3.50 with a twenty cent
starter playing faro bank Wednesday
night.
Joseph Fowler, a well known Union
Pacific freight conductor. who runs be-
tween Laramie and Rawlins, was quite
badly hurt at Carbon Wednesday night.
lie was coupling two engines when the
pilot bar Of one broke and struck him on
the side.
Great "mashers'' these blue coated
boys from Fort Russell. A reporter who
had occasion to walk on east Sixteenth
street last evening, met three couples
promenading under the trees. The
males in each case were soldiers. Still
people will assert that dress has nothing
to do with the case.
kirkland photographed Parker, the
h~lghwayman, at his gallery yesterday
morning. The prisoner was greatly inter
ested in the process, and seemed deter
mined to present as fine an appearance
as possible under the circumstances His
peculiar ''phiz" will make a valuable ad-
dition to the rogues gallery.